“I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer. And then we'd say, Yeah, he's a Cool Guy.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“He pauses, and I know he is about to lie. The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“It's not easy, pairing yourself off with someone forever. It's an admirable thing, and I'm glad you're both doing it, but, boy-oh-girl-oh, there will be days you wish you'd never done it. And those will be the good times, when it's only days of regret and not months.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“We weren’t ourselves when we fell in love, and when we became ourselves – surprise! – we were poison. We complete each other in the nastiest, ugliest possible way.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
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